Ukraine Adopts Slow Approach to Counteroffensive © Emanuele Satolli for The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal: Ukraine Adopts Slow Approach to Counteroffensive
ORIKHIV, Ukraine—Six weeks into Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Capt. Anatoliy Kharchenko and his reconnaissance company were supposed to be wreaking havoc miles behind Russian defensive lines pierced by Western-supplied armored vehicles.
Instead, after many of the vehicles got bogged down in minefields, Kharchenko and his men are training how to advance methodically on foot, moving from one line of trees to another, faced with the prospect of taking back their country one field at a time.
“We’ve got nothing to lose,” Kharchenko said. “Victory isn’t just important, but it’s the only option, otherwise we’ll all be dead.”
Ukraine’s counteroffensive, launched at the start of June, is aimed at retaking some of the nearly 20% of Ukrainian territory occupied by Moscow. The West provided dozens of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and trained thousands of Ukrainian troops for the campaign.
The swift loss of several tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, many of them immobilized by mines or missiles launched from attack helicopters, jolted Ukraine and its Western backers. Ukraine hasn’t achieved a decisive breakthrough, although it has seized several villages.
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WNU Editor: Another Western news media outfit admitting that Ukraine's counteroffensive is falling short and that Ukraine army commanders are disappointed in the West's lack of support in not providing jet fighters and air defense systems.
One more note. In the past two weeks I have noticed that the Western press has stopped reporting the sobering fact that since the start of the counteroffensive in June, the Ukraine army has yet been able to even reach the first main Russian line of defenses.
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